Best welcome present?
New neighbours. They seem, in order of importance, (a) sane, (b) friendly, (c) my age, (d) anglo. (This last is good for condo politics.)
I intend to bake them something tomorrow. Cookies? The delicious strawberry rhubarb cake I ate in a day? Bread? They have no kitchen, but family here. I’d prefer not to do something particularly difficult, so no cakes. Brownies are also possible. I do not object to doing both bread and cookies, cause I have a very easy bread recipe. But which cookies?
Today is indecisive day chez me.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I would vote for the rhubarb cake, myself, ‘cuz it sounds awesome.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Rhubarb cake sounds great.
I was confused by “anglo” at first, because in Australia, it’s a word people commonly use to mean “white”. It took me a minute to realise the bit elided when a Canadian uses the term is probably not “-saxon” but “-phone”!
May 15th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
My mother is pushy about cookies, and cookies are far easier.
I believe anglo/franco/allophone are used mostly in Quebec, and possibly Ottawa and New Brunswick. (They are also anglo in the Australian sense.)
The rhubarb cake, it is delicious. But rhubarb is sort of an acquired taste. Chocolate chip cookies, not.